тэва

Tundra Nenets

Etymology

From Proto-Samoyedic *təjwå, possibly from Proto-Uralic *sejpä.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tæwə]
• Hyphenation: тэ‧ва

Noun

тэвӑ • (tewă)

1. tail (of a land animal)

References

• Pyrerka, A. P., Tereščenko, N. M. (1948) Русско-ненецкий словарь [Russian–Nenets Dictionary], Moscow: Огиз, page 299
• N. M. Tereschenko (2005) “тэвӑ”, in Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий, 3rd edition, Saint Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN